I know it is a scam but shall I be worried?

[question everything]

Found it in my junk folder but, until now, there were legitimate mails.

From PayPal Recurring (never used PayPal)

Hello,

Thank you for doing Business with us. Your invoice is attached to this message

Date Nov 13 2020 and the amount due is $475.95.

Happy to help at 609 736 0991

???

No, of course I am not calling but just wondering whether any of my accounts may have been hacked.

[mr_lebowski]

1. Naw I wouldn't worry about that ...

Just means someone has your email.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. Welcome to "PITA" world! (Pain In The Ass)

Get them several times a week - mostly from PayPal and Amazon. Usually my "account" has been shut down and by calling (or responding) with my "correct" credit card number they will be able to "get things back up and running!"

"DELETE" is your friend!

[question everything]

3. Thank you. Wonder how they got my email.

[mitch96]

15. usually it's the shot gun approach. Get a lot of email addresses and put a "warning" and see what

bites... If you are really concerned notify Paypal.. They are good about this stuff..
m

[elleng]

4. DITTO, received similar message from 'paypal,'

tried to phone them 3X yesterday, 'unavailable.'

'My' message was 'thanks for buying applephone, for $445; confirmation of transaction will take a few days. Call if you want.'

Nothing like 'progress.'

[question everything]

5. "They" are making the rounds.

I never all the phone number from messages on my cell phone but I often google the numbers.

Here is another one

https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-609-736-0991

[WheelWalker]

6. I think if any of your accounts have been hacked, they wouldn't

be asking you to pay something. They'd just take it.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Opening the attachment could trigger a nasty download, but more than likely you haven't been...

hacked. Yet. They have a million ways of getting email addresses, even just randomly generating them, so they probably just picked yours up somewhere.

The idea is that if they send out a million of these and get 10 answers with 2 paying, they actually made a little money. They really luck out if you open the attachment and download bad stuff.

If you can read the full headers, you can see where it really came from, but that's probably phony anyway. Best thing to do is forward it to your ISP and/or mail provider and PayPal and let them deal with it. Or just trash it.

I use PayPal, and they don't send out stuff like that. They ask you to log in through their real website, and don't give you bad links. They're big enough to have seen this far too often already.

[question everything]

10. Was not an attachment. Just plain text.

[TreasonousBastard]

11. OK, there was that "attached to..." wording which kinda hinted at an attachment...

So, I wouldn't worry too much. It's easy to get a block of email addresses and just chum with them.

Worse, I just got a lot of error messages for emails I supposedly sent to nonexistent addresses. That would mean a lot more of them were received-- so, who got emails claiming to be from me?

[PoliticAverse]

8. Not unless you open the attachment. n/t

[Midnight Writer]

9. I've got that one and another from Amazon. Do not respond and do not click on any buttons.

[samnsara]

12. go into your personal paypal acct and check for bogus transactions..

[question everything]

13. Don't have a PayPal account. Never had one so there is nothing to check..

[safeinOhio]

14. They don't want you money, they are looking

for all of your info. They will will ask for account #s SS and such.

My worst hack was trying to pay for subscription to a local news paper. Called number from the news paper site to sign up and got some far away person. Took my CC info and didn't hear back. End of the month my card was getting charges for food deliveries in NY NY. Had to cancel my CC and get a new number and jump thru other hoops.

Good luck and never trust Emails.